Ten Tips to Improve Your ACT Score

Struggling to get your ACT score up? ACT tutor, Lea Bosse, offers ten tips to improve your ACT score. Apply these tips and you should start to see an improvement in how well you do.

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All Sections:

1. Use process of elimination

2. No idea what to do on a question? Circle the number, bubble in an answer, move on, come back if time at the end and try again

English:

1. Don’t just focus on what is underlined, get the context of the underlined portion within the complete sentence.

2. Four ways to connect independent clauses: use a period, use a comma and conjunction, use a semicolon, or use a colon. If a dependent and an independent clause, use a comma.

Math:

1. Two passes: first pass: problems that are quick and easy for you; second pass: try the ones you skipped

2. Sketch quick diagrams/graphs if none given

Reading:

1. Get a “snapshot” of the passage in 2 minutes or less; don’t read for comprehension, but get an idea of what you can find and where to find it

2. Do the line citation/key word or phrase questions first

Science:

1. Two passes: first pass: questions that tell you what figure/chart/graph to read; second pass: try the ones you skipped

2. Dueling Scientists: look for patterns in the opinions; save for last if it is a difficult passage for you

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